Malik Cruise | |
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| Birth name | Malik Barnes Cruise IV |
| Also known as | Toone |
| Born | November 5, 1992 Polokwane |
| Origin | Johannesburg |
| Genres | R&B, pop, hip hop, dance |
| Occupation(s) | rapper, singer, songwriter, producer |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Virtuoso Vision (in a division of Sony Music Entertainment) (2013-present) |
| Website | www www |
Malik Barnes Cruise IV (born November 5, 1992 in Polokwane) simply known as Malik Cruise and Toone is a South Africa's recording artist, rapper, singer, songwriter, and a producer who's contributing his talent and skills of composing music and writing songs for other artists in the underground and commercial music scene.
Music Career
editIn 2007 Malik Cruise got himself into the underground music scene and since then he has worked his way up by being the most featured artist and the underground recommended and approved artist, and also by being the underground artist who have more than 100 songs from mixtapes like Retailed (2009) with a hit "Now I Can" fused from the american rapper/ recording artist Lil Wayne's hit single Go D.J., Eclipse (2011) with a hit "It's Okay" a re-write of It's Okay by G.O.O.D. Music's Big Sean and Property Of November (2013) with hits like "What I Do" and "Signs" (Featuring Rethabile Khumalo). Malik Cruise has contributed his talent and make a feature in many underground artists songs around South Africa, He has appeared in songs like Jizzly Jae - "Sex Details", Yukzen - "Let Them Talk" (Remake of Meek Mill & Big Sean - Burn, T.E.G - "Scared Money", Prime Courtesy - "Now Or Never", Koleps - "Girls & Guitars" and many more. Aside Malik being a rapper and R&B singer, he has appeared in some several different music genre songs like dance whereby he did a dance version of his song entitled "Sex" from the mixtape Property Of November and transform it into a Kalawa Jazmee's DJ Mlu - "Follow Me". Malik Cruise is now currently working on his new and upcoming mixtape entitled "Back Then To Now".
Discography
editAlbums/ Mixtapes
edit- Retailed (2009)
- "Eclipse" (2011)
- "Property Of November" (2013)
- "Back Then To Now" (2015)
Singles
edit- "Now I Can"
- "It's Okay"
- "What I Do"
- "Signs" featuring Rethabile Khumalo
- "Bottom Line" featuring Mike Claris
- "Celebrate"
- "My City (We On)" featuring Gee-Kay
Featured Singles
edit- Jizzly Jae - "Sex Details"
- Yukzen - "Let Them Talk"
- T.E.G - "Scared Money"
- Prime Courtesy - "Now Or Never"
- Koleps - "Girls & Guitars"